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A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
The Hub is an actual complete Surface PC. $9k is ridiculous, but it is more than just a whiteboard.
We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms. Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them? I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...
So it's whenever you're doing brainstorming (people can send post-it notes to it directly from their phone), organizing brainstorms into categories, keeping track of pros/cons, etc... then it turns out to be pure magic. Being able to move whole sections of a whiteboard around is incredible too.
so basically multiplayer MS paint? heck, it's a good idea!
Microsoft NetMeeting had that in the 90s, I remember it quite fondly.
I kind of wish Comic Chat still existed (though everyone should be blaming it for Comic Sans)
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The Hub is an actual complete Surface PC. $9k is ridiculous, but it is more than just a whiteboard.
But in that case you don't want more than a white board. There are many cases, especially in the corporate world, where you want a single-purpose device that isn't going to need maintenance, group policies, etc etc.
We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms. Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them? I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...
Effective distributed whiteboarding, etc. is something that the tech industry has been dithering with for decades and nothing has ever seemed to quite click. It feels that, with relatively inexpensive tablets [ADDED: and almost affordable big screen touchscreens], maybe we'll actually converge on something interesting.
Sometime ago I've read that its success was a surprise and the demand was greater than MS could produce. Is it really good?
That sentence at the end is odd - does it mean that the iOS app will be paid for? > Microsoft Whiteboard is available as an app for all users on Windows 10 devices. For commercial users, the Whiteboard app will be coming soon to iOS
Based on the other footnote, I think the reference to "commercial users" is drawing a distinction between business Office 365 users (i.e. their own instance with a custom domain) and personal Office 365 users: > Whiteboard currently supports collaboration within Office 365 tenants for commercial customers, and across personal accounts for customers with a Microsoft account. Collaboration across multiple Office 365 te…
Cross-collaboration [so, xyz@company.com collaborating with abc@outlook.com] will come later.
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Microsoft NetMeeting had that in the 90s, I remember it quite fondly.
It excited me as a kid haha. Between that and Comic Chat, and V-Chat I was convinced the future was now . I kind of wish Comic Chat still existed (though everyone should be blaming it for Comic Sans)